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* McCourt promises to return club to former glories * Deal has cost 40 million euros - media report (Adds details, changes slug) By John Irish PARIS, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Frank McCourt, former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, said on Monday he had entered exclusive negotiations to buy Olympique de Marseille and vowed to restore the club to their former glories. Billionaire businesswoman Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, the Russian-born chairwoman of Louis Dreyfus Commodities trading house, said in April she was looking for a buyer for the Ligue 1 side. "Margarita and I just executed a contract for us to buy OM, the greatest football club in the French league and one of the best in the world," McCourt told a news conference alongside Louis-Dreyfus and Marseille mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin. Continue to Article

August 29, 2016 11:24:am EST

* McCourt promises to return club to former glories * Deal has cost 40 million euros - media report (Adds details, changes slug) By John Irish PARIS, Aug 29 (Reuters) - Frank McCourt, former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, said on Monday he had entered exclusive negotiations to buy Olympique de Marseille and vowed to restore the club to their former glories. Billionaire businesswoman Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, the Russian-born chairwoman of Louis Dreyfus Commodities trading house, said in April she was looking for a buyer for the Ligue 1 side. "Margarita and I just executed a contract for us to buy OM, the greatest football club in the French league and one of the best in the world," McCourt told a news conference alongside Louis-Dreyfus and Marseille mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin. Continue to Article

August 29, 2016 11:24:am EST

Take a look at the American League's second wild card, for example: Right now, Baltimore leads that race and Detroit is only two games back, but according to the playoff probabilities at Fangraphs.com , the Orioles have only a 43 percent chance to reach the postseason, and the Tigers are at 36 percent. The New York Mets are only 2 1/2 games behind St. Louis for the second wild card in the National League - hardly a daunting deficit with over a month to play. Fangraphs gives the Mets a 19-percent chance to make it. Continue to Article

August 29, 2016 3:11:am EST

A.J. Ellis, the Philadelphia Phillies' recently acquired catcher, has made an immediate impact with his new team. The same cannot be said of Jake Thompson, the Phillies' rookie right-hander. Thompson (1-3, 9.78) will be looking to get untracked Monday, when the Phillies open a three-game series against the Washington Nationals. Continue to Article

August 28, 2016 10:24:pm EST

Kenta Maeda will try to continue his dominance against Colorado and his mastery at Coors Field when he starts Monday against the Rockies for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Maeda is 13-7 with a 3.37 ERA this season. In his last outing Tuesday, Maeda picked up the win in a 9-5 victory over the San Francisco Giants. Continue to Article

August 28, 2016 9:44:pm EST